rose garden

Morrissey

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There has to be a little rain sometime

When you take, you gotta give
So live and let live or let go
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

I could promise you things
like big diamond rings
But you don t find roses
Growing in stalks of clover
So you better think it over
If sweet talking
then you could make it come true
I could give you the world right now
On a silver platter
But what would it matter?

So smile for a while and let s be jolly
Love shouldn t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times
While we can

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There has to be a little rain sometime
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

I could sing you a tune
And promise you the moon
If that s what it takes to hold you
Then I d just as soon let you go
But there s one thing I want you to know
Look before you leap
still waters run deep
There won t always be
Someone there to pull you out
And you know what I m talking about

So smile for a while, let s be jolly
Love shouldn t be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times
While we can

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There has to be a little rain sometime